What Happened to Love Bites After Kitchen Nightmares? (Saugerties, NY)

Love Bites Cafe, on Partition Street in Saugerties, New York, was run by Tess Robinson and Chris Keff, described in coverage of the episode as childhood sweethearts who ran the small restaurant together. The cafe was featured in Kitchen Nightmares Season 8, Episode 6, filmed in June 2023; the Hudson Valley Film Commission's founder, Laurent Rejto, told the Albany television station News10 that he spotted Ramsay's crew filming on Partition Street that month and initially believed it might be an unannounced new Ramsay project, given how "hush hush" the crew was about the production's title, before it was revealed as the revival of Kitchen Nightmares. The episode aired November 13, 2023.

Rather than focusing primarily on kitchen or food problems, the episode centers on the strain of Robinson and Keff running a small business together as a couple, framing the difficulty of separating their working partnership from their personal relationship as the central issue threatening both the cafe and their engagement. Ramsay worked with the couple on the cafe's finances, menu, and physical space while also addressing the relationship tension directly on camera. According to News10's report, which ran alongside the episode's broadcast, Love Bites Cafe closed shortly after Ramsay's June 2023 visit so that Robinson and Keff could focus on their relationship, meaning the cafe had already closed roughly four months before the episode reached air on Fox.

A Yelp listing for the Partition Street address is separately marked permanently closed as of a September 2026 update to the site, consistent with News10's contemporaneous report of the closure. The Love Bites episode was among several installments in the revived eighth season built around couples or family partners running a restaurant together, a format the show used repeatedly across its 2023 episodes, according to trade coverage of the season's premise.